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Jun 2, 2009 6:27 am US/Eastern

Wake To Be Held For NYPD Officer Edwards

NEW YORK (CBS) ― The wake for officer Omar Edwards will be held Tuesday evening.

The wake is scheduled from 4pm to 8pm, and again Wednesday from 2pm to 8pm at Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn.

On Thursday night in East Harlem, Officer Edwards was shot and killed while in plainclothes, his gun drawn as he chased a man suspected of breaking into his car. Officer Andrew Dunton and other cops saw the chase and intervened. Witnesses said they heard gun fire, then moments later the officers saying "We just shot a cop."

"It was seconds. It was seconds after it happened – immediately," witness Manuel Cardona says. "Everything happened so fast."

Edwards and Dunton were 15 feet apart when the latter fired. Edwards was hit in the left arm, in the chest and the fatal shot to the back, which pierced his lung and heart.

He was a newlywed who leaves behind a wife and two young children. He will be given a full inspector's funeral on Thursday at the Church of our Lady of Victory in Brooklyn.

Gov. David Paterson and Rev. Al Sharpton met Monday with Edwards' family and offered condolences, as well as a promise to work to prevent future tragedies like it.

"They are mourning and I came in and offered them the prayers of my family – Michelle and Alex and Ashley and myself – and I let them know how much we as human beings feel, and have empathy for their circumstances and compassion for the difficulty now of raising children without a father," Paterson told reporters afterward.

Arriving at her home earlier was widow Danielle Edwards, holding one of her two children as her family prepares for Tuesday's wake of her husband. Also visiting her home was William Bell, the father of Sean Bell, who died amid a hail of 50 police bullets outside a Queens club in November of 2006.

"I know how it feels to lose a human being," Bell said. "That's the only thing I came for – to give them my prayers."

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